South Africa: Trials & Appeals & Compensation

A KwaZulu-Natal High Court judgment dismisses an aspiring legal practitioner's application for leave to appeal after she was found to have made deliberate false statements and material non-disclosures under oath during her admission application. The court's decision reinforces the profession's unwavering standards for honesty and integrity, distinguishing between negligent omissions and deliberate dishonesty in the admission process.

The Supreme Court of Appeal's recent judgment in the MV Haralambos case has sparked significant debate in South Africa's maritime community by upholding a vessel arrest based largely on commercial database evidence. The decision addresses the challenging question of proving common control between ship-owning companies when beneficial ownership information is not publicly available, potentially reshaping the evidentiary landscape for associated ship arrests. At the heart of the controversy lies whether comme

A Constitutional Court decision has clarified a critical procedural question in South African administrative law: whether respondents can raise dispositive legal objections before producing the Rule 53 record in review proceedings. The ruling addresses the tension between an applicant's right to supplement their case after receiving the administrative record and a respondent's ability to challenge the review on purely legal grounds at an early stage.

A private hospital patient's leg amputation following an untreated ruptured aneurysm led to complex medical negligence litigation involving multiple defendants. When the plaintiff's legal team delayed suing a key physician based on a strategic decision to pursue vicarious liability, the court had to determine whether the claim had prescribed under South Africa's three-year limitation period.

A Johannesburg High Court recently dismissed a plaintiff's insurance claim after more than thirteen years of inordinate delay and failure to prosecute.

Accusations of racism in the workplace are among the most sensitive and volatile issues employers and employees can face. In South Africa, where history, power and inequality remain deeply intertwined with working life, such allegations carry real emotional and legal weight.

Political Risk Insurance ("PRI"), which serves to protect assets and financial interests, offers a safeguard against adverse actions or inactions of governments and serves to mitigate...

This article examines a recent judgment delivered by South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ("SCA") in which the SCA decided upon an unopposed application for special leave to appeal against the judgment and order...

Defamation consists of the wrongful and intentional publication of a defamatory statement concerning another.